Amusement device



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AMUSEMENT DEVICE- APPLICATION FILED 1ULY29| 1920.

Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

INVENTOQ EDWARD Pmca ATTOIZNEY UNITED STATES EDWARD PRICE, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

Application filed. July 29, 1920. Serial No. 399,665.

To all whom it may concern Be, it known that I EDWARD Pinon, a citizen of the United Slates, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful improvements in Amusement Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an amusement device of the merry-go-round type adapted to be manually propelled.

It is the object of this invention to provide a 1nerry-go-round which is so constructed and operated as to have a rotary oscillatory motion, and which is also adapted to have vertical movement on its pivot.

A further object is to provide a merry-goround of the above character in which its operation may be effected manually by a person remote therefrom.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a View of the merry-go-round as seen in elevation.

Figure 2 is a perspective view; and

Figure 3 is a detail horizontal section as seen on the line 33 of Figure 1. j

More specifically, 4 indicates a stationary post or standard upon which a carriage 5 is pivoted and mounted for both turnable movement around the post and for reciprocable movement vertically thereof; the carriage being suspended from the post by means of a series of flexible hangers or cables 6, which are here shown as connecting with the carriage adjacent to the post and connecting with bracket 7 at the upper ends of the post. The hangers or cables are designed to be wound on the post on rotation of the carriage and thereby act to cause the carriage to move upwardly on the post.

Mounted on the carriage is a drum 8 around which a cable 9 is adapted to be wound in such manner that a pull on the cable will effect rotation of the carriage in one direction.

In the operation of the invention, assuming the carriage be in its normal lowermost position and depending from the flexible hangers 6, as shown in Figure 1, and the cable 9 wound on the drum 8, a pull on the cable 9 will then efi'ect rotation of the drum and the carriage around the post in so doing will cause the hangers to wind on the post and thereby move the carriage upwardly to dispose it in an elevated position, as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1. The pull on the cable may be eilected manually by a person positioned remote from the carriage.

On the discontinuing the pull on the cable after the carriage has been moved to the desired elevated position, the weight of the carriage will. exert a downward pull on the hangers wound on the post and will thereby act to cause the hangers to unwind, so that the carriage will move in retrograde direction around the post and also move downwardly thereon to its lowermost position; the carriage rotating the drum 8 therewith so as to rewind the cable thereon. momentum will be imparted to the carriage on its downward movement which will act to move the carriage past its normal central position, so that on the termination of each downstroke of the carriage the hangers will wind a short distance on the post in a reverse direction, so that in continuous operation of the carriage a short up and down movement will occur at the termination of each downstroke of the carriage and immediately preceding its upward movement under actuation by the cable.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that l.

A a L have provided a merry-go-roundin which the carriage will be given a rotary oscillatory motion coincident with a vertical reciprocal movement, so'that while the carriage is moving around a center the horizontal plane thereof will be constantly changing.

I claim:

In a merry-go-round, a post, a series of flexible hangers depending from said post, a carriage suspended on said hangers and turnable on said post, a drum carried by said carriage vertically slidable on said post and a cable windable on said drum adapted on being subjected to a pull to rotate the carriage in one direction and thereby wind the hangers on the post.

EDWARD PRICE. 

